• LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Defending world champion Tuf Cooper took the lead in the tie-down roping season standings Friday night in the National Finals Rodeo, tying for second in the second round.
• Cooper, from Decatur, Texas, earned $12,662 to push his season total to $155,341, ending Justin Maass' 10-month run at the top. Maass, from Giddings, Texas, was shut out after failing to finish in the top six, leaving him at $144,001 with eight rounds left.
• Cooper's brother, Clif, won the round with a 7.3-second run.
• "I'm not really competing against him (Tuf). I'm competing against myself," Clif Cooper said. "I'm going to make the best run I can on the cattle I draw. It's our motto: If I don't win I want him to win it, and if he doesn't win he wants me to."
• Tuf Cooper and Monty Lewis of Hereford, Texas, finished at 7.5.
• In steer wrestling, two-time world champion Dean Gorsuch of Gering, Neb., was second with 3.9-second run to take over first place in the standings.
• Gorsuch has earned $116,067, while previous leader Ethen Touvenell of Napa, Calif., who didn't place among the top six, has made $109,591.
• Billy Bugenig of Ferndale, Calif., won with a time of 3.6. Casey Martin of Sulphur, La., finished third in 4.00 and held on to third place in the standings with $100,207.
• In barrel racing, 53-year-old NFR rookie Mary Walker of Ennis, Texas, won her second consecutive round, this time in 13.80. Walker remained second in the Stand

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